Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-11
A CnAIN OF Bn1anr REsoRrs, OF

A CHAIN OF BRIGHT RESORTS, OF
WHICH SEA TsLs CIT is SHINING
LTEK.-Did you ever notice how
many of the seaside resorts on the
New Jersey coast are on islands
From Sandy Hook to Cape May, a
distance Of one hundred and twenty
seven miles, is a string OF resorts,
fully seventy.five in number. For
at least two-thirds of this distance
the cities by the sea are planted
upon sandy beaches out in the sea.
From Sandy Hook to Bay Head the
resorts are on the main land. These
include Long Branch, Asbury Park,
Ocean Grove, Ocean Beach, Spring
Lake and Sea Grit, and a dozen
places not as we'll known. From
Bay Head. at the top Of famous old
Barnegat Bay, it is possible to sail
all the way to Cape May without
going outside the chain of islands.
First you will sail down Barnegat
Bay, passing Lavallette, Ortley,
Berkeley, Seaside Park, ard Island
Beach. You cross Barnegat Inlet
and skirt the shore of Long Beach
IAN island), passing Barnegat City
Beach, Harvey's Cedars, Beach
Haven, and Sea Haven. Across
Little Egg Harbor Bay, and you
enter Absecon Bay, Brigantine Is
land between you and the ocean.
At the sunken end of Brigantine
you cross the famous inlet and find
yourself at Atlantic City Through
the Thoroughfare and your boat
takes you to Longport at the end
of the island, Absecon, which has
Atlantic City at the northern ex-
tremity. Across Great Egg Har-
Dor Bay and you reach Peck's
Beach with Ocean City. Another
thoroughfare carries you past the
island to Corson's Inlet at the
northern end of Ludlam's Beach,
likewise an island, upon which Sea
Isle City is built. Then comes
series of bays and inlets which lead
you by Holly Beach and Anglesea
to Sewell's Point and Cape May.
What a marvellous coast this is!
And where can anything like it be
found ? And all these resorts have
been made possible aud been devel-
oped by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It touches everywhere. Some syn
dictate purchases strip of beach
and improves it. Next we hear of
a Pennsylvania Railroad branch
penetrating it, and 10 it blossoms
forth into q full fledged resort with
hotels and cottages. Before many
years there viii be a continuous
line of rails from Sandy Hook to
Cape May Point, with not mile of
nnocoupied beach land.
Among these resorts you can
make your choice. There is the fash
ion Of Long Branch, Of Key East.
Of Sea Grit. and Spring Lake; the
less fashionable but still gay aud
temperate Asbury Park; the great
Methodist camp at Ocean Grove;
the restless, crowded cosmopolitan
ism Of Atlantic City, and the quiet
elegance of Old Cape May. Then
there is the grand fishing and sailing
Of Barnegat Bay and the resorts Of
the neighborhoOd, and the equally
good fishing of the bays south of
Atlantic City. Everybody goes to
Atlantic, and rich and poor iostle
each other on the beach and in the
hotel Hobbies. But Il you would be
rid Of al that; if you would travel
with bag instead Of a trunk, ] and
enjoy free and easy life free from
the dictates Of fashion, 60 to Bar
negat City Beach, Longport, Ocean
City, Sea Isle City. and Anglesea.
One If the newest places Is Sea
Isle. It i Of easy access, and ex-
press trains over the West Jersey
road take you directly to it in two
hours. Il is ouly about Eve years
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